The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 63
“Well, that’s respect, I expect,” declared the Clown, and immediately stood upon his head.
Who acts: Clown · What happens: expect, declare, stand · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clown), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 declared | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 expect | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’s | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ’s | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 expect | advcl |
| 6 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’s | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expect | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 expect | nsubj |
| 9 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 declared | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expect | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 expect | punct |
| 12 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Clown | det |
| 14 | Clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declared | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stood | cc |
| 17 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 18 stood | advmod |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 declared | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect in a quote | present | the Clown = clown | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the Clown | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the Clown not said here | Joker's head | immediately property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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